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Re: Broken Britain

#1576 Post by Patrick Bateman »

raggatwin wrote:This Somali fellow living in a posh house is merely gaining a roof over his head, not £8000 a month. The local housing authority could have housed him somewhere else, but they didn't.
Yes, preferably in Somalia.

And no, he is not 'merely gaining a roof over his head'. He had already been handed a five bedroom home but it wasn't good enough for him. :lol:

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#1577 Post by raggatwin »

so the Mail says, a newspaper that doesnt like blacks, particularly muslim blacks.

posh boy, you've never been on housing benefit, you don't know how it works.
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#1578 Post by Patrick Bateman »

Oh come on, even Polly acknowledged this case and she's the patron saint of champagne socialists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... gets-worse

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#1579 Post by raggatwin »

did you learn how to dodge direct questions in your debating society?
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#1580 Post by raggatwin »

....at your posh school
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Re: Broken Britain

#1581 Post by Undertaker »

Dunno why the government just don't grow a pair and send scrobs like that back.

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#1582 Post by raggatwin »

Probably because the ruling elite need them as a reserve army of labour to keep the cost of wages down, it's obvious innit.....
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#1583 Post by Flaffer »

god it's like the sixth form debating society.
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#1584 Post by Flaffer »

raggatwin wrote:Probably because the ruling elite need them as a reserve army of labour to keep the cost of wages down, it's obvious innit.....
Is 'innit' meant ironically? After all you are a teacher, not one of the working classes 'classic' career paths. Its rather like the Guardianistas who profess to love all immigration and how marvellous it is. However when it means a slowing down in the teaching of Jocasta and Toby and a fall in the value of their property, it becomes an issue and leads to ............"I'm not against immigration per se but........"
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#1585 Post by Flaffer »

raggatwin wrote:so the Mail says, a newspaper that doesnt like blacks, particularly muslim blacks.

posh boy, you've never been on housing benefit, you don't know how it works.
you're bringing race and religion into what fundamentally is an issue concerned with neither, at least theoretically. Of course PC attitudes do impinge on both how the claim may have been handled and the reporting of the story
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#1586 Post by raggatwin »

As a north londoner I can assure u innit is most definitely part of my lexicon.
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#1587 Post by raggatwin »

Flaffer wrote:
raggatwin wrote:so the Mail says, a newspaper that doesnt like blacks, particularly muslim blacks.

posh boy, you've never been on housing benefit, you don't know how it works.
you're bringing race and religion into what fundamentally is an issue concerned with neither, at least theoretically. Of course PC attitudes do impinge on both how the claim may have been handled and the reporting of the story

I know you probably didnt do thematic analysis on your business course but that is essentially what those articles are about, as are much of the comments made on here.

How queer that when drico makes fundamentally the same points as me they pass without comnent, anyone would think he was the moderator or summimk. Lol.

Funny, I go from being council estate scum to a member of the
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#1588 Post by raggatwin »

. .to a member of the solid middle class.

Unlike many of you I dont present information as fact and I therefore have no enpirical data to back this up...

Most teachers in my world are from working class backgrounds.

No wondrr the working class is f***... with assumptions like those. Oh dear.....
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#1589 Post by raggatwin »

Lets have a im more working class than you competition!

Ill kick it off.

Wheb I was at school I never went on any trips cos my parents couldnt afford them
I remember goibg hungry cos my parents had to pay bills rather than buy food

Oh was I really poor and not working ckass at all. My parents couldnt afford to send me to a nice school as they didnt have enough money for the bus fare.

I grew up in hackney. Norf london

I had obe change of clothes.

Is that working class enough for you?
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#1590 Post by raggatwin »

. .to a member of the solid middle class.

Unlike many of you I dont present information as fact and I therefore have no enpirical data to back this up...

Most teachers in my world are from working class backgrounds.

No wondrr the working class is f***... with assumptions like those. Oh dear.....
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